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Mark David Gerson

The Way of the Imperfect Fool

Synopsis

Smash the Biggest Roadblock to Your Success and Live the Life You Deserve! ••• A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Total Success. ••• Master the secrets of the highly successful, discover how easy it can be to banish doubt, drive out judgment and bust past fear, and learn to trust your intuition, take chances and never give up. ••• Your Dreams Can Come True! Be the Success You Were Meant to Be!

Author Biography

Award-winning author of more than a dozen books whose readers span the globe, Mark David Gerson electrifies groups and individuals around the world with his inspiring stories and motivational workshops, seminars, talks and retreats.

Mark David's books include critically acclaimed personal development and self-help titles, compelling memoirs and spellbinding fiction. In addition, Mark David’s books for writers are considered classics in the field and his screenplay adaptations of his Q’ntana fantasy novels are on their way to theaters as a trio of epic feature films.

As a personal growth coach and creativity catalyst and mentor, Mark David works with an international roster of clients to help them foster their intuition, connect with their inner wisdom, express their innate creativity and live more passion- and purpose-filled lives.

Having overcome his own personal and creative blocks and challenges, Mark David is uniquely qualified to motivate and inspire individuals in all walks of life and from all backgrounds to unleash the power of their potential.

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Author Insight

Step #2: Fire Up Your Intuition!

If The Way of the Imperfect Fool is about anything, it's about intuition – listening for it, trusting it and following it...even when it makes no conventional sense. It's that innate faith in his intuition that not only guides the tarot Fool whose archetype lies at the foundation of this book but also guided me in its creation: When I started out, I had nothing but a title, a sense of my own perfectionist tendencies and a certainty that those same tendencies had often gotten in the way of my success. From that starting point, I turned the project over to my inner Fool and let my intuition do the rest! (If the Getty curators had done something similar, perhaps they wouldn't have dropped a reported $12 million on what is widely believed to be a fake!)

Book Excerpt

The Way of the Imperfect Fool

When back in the mid-1980s, LA’s Getty Museum paid a Basel art dealer what is rumored to have been as much as $12 million for a priceless Greek statue known as a kouros, it didn’t do so without first spending fourteen months subjecting the statue’s provenance documents to close scrutiny and the statue itself to a battery of scientific tests.

However, historians who viewed the sculpture once it was in the Getty’s hands were convinced that it was a fake. As Malcolm Gladwell recounts in his book Blink, one insisted that it just “didn’t look right,” while another had an “instinctive sense” that something about it was off.

By the early 1990s, those intuitive feelings had been proved to be accurate. Not only was the kouros’s documentation discovered to have been forged, it was learned that the layer of calcite around the statue could have formed in just a few years, not over many centuries as had originally been assumed.

The kouros is still at the Getty — in storage and viewable only by private appointment.